Biography:Martha Bergland's first novel, A Farm under a Lake, featured some of the same settings and characters as Idle Curiosity. A Farm under a Lake was first published by Graywolf Press and went on to be published in Great Britain, Sweden, and Germany. Martha Bergland teaches English at Milwaukee Area Technical College. Bergland lives in Glendale, Wisconsin.​Works by Martha Bergland:

A Farm Under a Lake, 1990

Idle Curiosity, 1997

Studying Wisconsin: The Life of Increase Lapham, early chronicler of plants, rocks, rivers, mounds and all things Wisconsin, ​ 2014